Growing Cherry Tomatoes Under Glass
Time in the kitchen garden…
My kitchen garden was forced into semi retirement last year when my career took a change for the busier. I had and indeed continue to have mixed feelings about giving it up, it has given me a lot of pleasure over the years, provided me with food, knowledge and a great deal of satisfaction for seeing food grow from the tiniest seed to the biggest fruit or vegetable producing plants.
I’ve not given up entirely though, there’s still three types of tomato plant, a solitary chilli plant, an orange tree and enough herbs to shake a stick at so that pretty much covers my simple requirements! The tomatoes have been slow coming through, even under glass. A distinct lack of sun and warmth has played its part so I’m glad I’ve got them under cover.
I do love these cherry tomatoes, fresh from the vine they are incredibly sweet and delicious.
These will be for random picking only, the bush variety hasn’t produced the usual glut I had expected so a soup or sauce is pretty much out of the question. Not that I mind though
because it gives me an excuse to carry on picking them at will and enjoying a ripe English tomato at its best.
Cherry Tomatoes
My tomatoes are out in the element sand taking quite a while to ripen - I’ve had two though and superb they were - a country mile away from the supermarket ones
Cheers
Rod
August 3, 2009 @ 8:33 am
Miles,
I’m as drawn to your photograph as I would be the ripe tomato itself…. both are delicious.
Cid
August 3, 2009 @ 6:26 pm
Miles,
I have only one cherry tomato plant outside and just counted 81 tomatoes on it. So far we have eaten 8. Not bad for one plant
Anne
August 3, 2009 @ 8:24 pm
Miles,
My Dad’s greenhouse tomatoes remain the tastiest I’ve ever eaten, even after the weapons-grade plutonium or whatever it was he sprayed on them. Enjoy your random pickings!
GDave
PS. Cracking photo too. Marvellous composition.
August 3, 2009 @ 8:26 pm
All,
Sorry for the delay in replying, truth be told I was working until seven last night and then it was straight out to the curry house
Miles
August 4, 2009 @ 7:23 pm
I’m jealous of your perfect tomatoes as all my vegetable plants and flowers were trampled by a recent hailstorm. A quite severe one that trashed windows, trees, cars, roofs, etc. I’m just thankful the farm I get my weekly produce delivery from was spared. Whew, that would have been a catastrophe!
As always, Miles — beautiful photo!
Melissa
August 4, 2009 @ 7:38 pm
Melissa,
You should move to England, we have a wonderful year round climate-cold and wet!!
Miles
August 4, 2009 @ 8:50 pm
Miles
What a wonderful photograph, I wish my tomatoes were that good. I grew four plants this year and gave my sister two and kept two myself. She has been eating ripe tomatoes for two weeks and me nada, nothing. Must be the cold and wet her in the midlands.
Simon
August 5, 2009 @ 2:26 pm
Simon,
Welcome to the site and thank you for commenting, that is typical isn’t it? Same thing happened to me when I gave one of my female chefs a tomato plant, she had dozens of tomatoes, mine on the other hand were a disaster.
kind regards
Miles
August 5, 2009 @ 9:11 pm